After much consideration, I’ve decided to leave WordPress and start up a new blog at Blogger. I am a YA writer primarily, and many of the YA reviewers and fans are on Blogger, and you can therefore, connect with them through Google connect. Blogger accepts javascript, which means you can add whatever widget you want to your sidebar, including follower widgets. And instead of sticking with stock designs, you can also choose from thousands to truly make your blog you own and more representative of your content.
I did have a little blog at Blogger years ago, and I didn’t like it. It felt like an island because it didn’t have a community section like WordPress, where you can go and search for other blogs through tags. You know, you come into WordPress, and there’s a huge welcome mat, you can easily find the forum if you have questions, you can discover fun posts through Freshly Pressed. But none of that matters to me right now, as my blog needs have changed and it’s hard to do everything I want here. It’s too limiting.
But, Blogger has grown over the years since I used it. It now has a stats page, whereas before I had to add code. Granted, Google analytics sucks in my opinion, but at least they have a stat page now. What I really love most about Blogger is Google Connect and you can also add the Networked Blogs widget, so people can easily follow your blog. Visitors can also see what I’m reading and whatever else I want to share in my sidebars.
I will be keeping this blog live because it has a ton of great content for writers and many of my articles rank high in search engines, but I’m taking my blog in a new direction and expanding it beyond writing and publishing into a more YA-focused zone. And Blogger is more accommodating to that vision. I may post in here from time to time, but for the most part, my new content will be at my new home, Gotta Have YA. Come over and visit, and sign up as a follower if you haven’t. I love my design. And if I get sick of it, I can easily change it to whatever crazy layout I want.
Thank you so much, if you’ve been following my zaniness here!
~ Signing off and sending out cyber hugs.
Aw, feels kinda sad for some reason. Some stupid, inexplicable reason. No idea why. Changed subscriptions to be your new one, though.
I know. It is kind of sad. It’s like leaving the community you grew up in or something. I was just feeling colorless over here. Thanks for subscribing. I just added an email thingy today.